M3 crash in Winchester on 21 August 2024 at 11:48 involving a Ford Transit
A Ford Transit crashed on the M3 in Winchester at 11:48 on Wednesday 21 August 2024. The 45-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Aug 2024
- Wednesday, 11:48
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.04756, longitude -1.30267, in the SO23 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Michael, Winchester, SO23 9PA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024440359044
- Council area
- Winchester
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 3
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 25 metres away, was a fatal crash on 9 October 2021.
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Volvo XC60 crash on the M3 in Winchester, 20 March 2024
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 37 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 45, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 km
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2024440359044 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Winchester road accident statistics for 2024.